Wrong-pedal car-wash crash becomes disastrous YouTube gold

Sacramento's Quick Quack Car Wash suffered some sizable damage on Friday, when an elderly driver mashed the wrong pedal and tore through the automated car wash tunnel before crashing to a halt in the vacuum bay.

The business is taking it all in stride, though.

Thankfully, nobody was hurt. The car wash attendants were able to stay out of the path of destruction, and the driver, while understandably shaken up, was not injured.

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"The airbags saved him from serious injury," a Quick Quack employee told R&T.

That left the car wash with an unexpected gem: security camera footage showing every moment of the crash course, from start to finish.

Coincidentally, they have an advertising jingle that fits perfectly over the video.

You know where this is going.

Here, for your viewing pleasure and schadenfreude, is what it looks like when a confused and terrified driver goes tearing through a car wash, set to a goofy tune.

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Just watch the face of the young woman standing inside the tunnel. It goes from friendly-greeting smile to puzzled to horrified in the span of just a few seconds. This is the face of fear.